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Is Free Trade "Free?" Is It Even "Trade?" Oppression And Consent In Hemispheric Trade Agreements, Frank J. Garcia
Is Free Trade "Free?" Is It Even "Trade?" Oppression And Consent In Hemispheric Trade Agreements, Frank J. Garcia
Frank J. Garcia
In order for free trade as a policy to deliver fully on its social promise, it must be both “free” and “trade.” In fact, it must be free, in the sense of voluntary, to be trade at all. In other words, for normative and practical reasons, free trade requires that global economic relations be structured through agreements which reflect the consent of those subject to them. The neoliberal trading system today only imperfectly lives up to this obligation. In this essay, I will examine the role of consent in trade agreements, drawing on examples from CAFTA as representative of important …
The Integration Of Smaller Economies Into The Ftaa, Frank J. Garcia
The Integration Of Smaller Economies Into The Ftaa, Frank J. Garcia
Frank J. Garcia
No abstract provided.
Protection Of Intellectual Property Rights In The North American Free Trade Agreement: A Successful Case Of Regional Trade Regulation, Frank J. Garcia
Protection Of Intellectual Property Rights In The North American Free Trade Agreement: A Successful Case Of Regional Trade Regulation, Frank J. Garcia
Frank J. Garcia
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The Moral Hazard Problem In Global Economic Regulation, Frank J. Garcia
The Moral Hazard Problem In Global Economic Regulation, Frank J. Garcia
Frank J. Garcia
Global regulation of international business transactions presents a particular form of the moral hazard problem. Global firms use economic and political power to manipulate state and state-controlled multilateral regulation to preserve their opportunity to externalize the social costs of global economic activity with impunity. Unless other actors can effectively counter this at the national and global regulatory levels, globalization re-creates the conditions for under-regulated or “robber baron” capitalism at the global level. This model of economic activity has been rejected at the national level by the same modern democratic capitalist states which currently dominate globalization, creating a crisis of legitimacy …
A "Fair" Trade Law Of Nations Or A "Fair" Global Law Of Economic Relations?, Frank J. Garcia
A "Fair" Trade Law Of Nations Or A "Fair" Global Law Of Economic Relations?, Frank J. Garcia
Frank J. Garcia
No abstract provided.
The Salmon Case: Evolution Of Balancing Mechanisms For Non-Trade Values In Wto, Frank Garcia
The Salmon Case: Evolution Of Balancing Mechanisms For Non-Trade Values In Wto, Frank Garcia
Frank J. Garcia
No abstract provided.
Integrating Trade And Human Rights In The Americas, Frank Garcia
Integrating Trade And Human Rights In The Americas, Frank Garcia
Frank J. Garcia
This paper analyzes the relationship between the OAS Inter-American human rights system and several regional integration systems, including NAFTA, MERCOSUR and the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). Broadly speaking, there are two models for the relationship between integration systems and human rights protection: the leverage model and the incorporation model. The leverage model involves making effective participation in extrinsic human rights systems a legal or political condition of integration system membership. The incorporation model focuses on the juridical interpenetration of the two systems at many levels. This paper will focus on the leverage model, as it applies …
The Ftaa: Building The Framework For 21st Century Trade And Business In The Americas, Frank Garcia
The Ftaa: Building The Framework For 21st Century Trade And Business In The Americas, Frank Garcia
Frank J. Garcia
No abstract provided.